University of Miami - Ibis Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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FACING ASHE BUILDING, FACULTY QUARTERS. MEMORIAL CLASSROOMS ARE VISITED DAILY BY STUDENTS 21

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Administration UM’s 30 Years In Retrospect ttTTT E HAVE NO traditions to follow . . VV These were the first words appearing in a University of Miami student yearbook. They headed the commentary in which the editors of the first Ibis interpreted the experiences of the school’s first year. We must begin traditions, and plan wisely for the future,” the Ibis editors wrote. Reflected throughout their book was a strong sense of great beginnings. It was exciting to be in a University which the year before had not existed. They relished the opportunities to invent customs, songs, organizations which, in the course of time, would become traditional. They also had ideas on the University’s academic future. I have been re-reading that first yearbook, to see whether the University in its 30th year measures up to the enthusiastic forecast of the Ibis founding fathers. In many ways it does. We have what they expected—perhaps more—in a beautiful campus, national and international student body, athletic teams, sub-tropical living. They envisaged ”a medical center.” We have an accredited School of Medicine. They wanted excellence in marine biology, agricul- ture, an Inter-American center, adult courses. These the 30 years have given us. Yet in retrospect, none of this impresses me as much as does the continuity of educational experience which the University owns today and owned when its doors first opened in October 1926. These arc some of the institutions of higher learning at which the first faculty members earned their degrees: University of Lima, Peru; Bonn, Germany; Montpellier, France; Universidad de Madrid, Spain; London Polytechnic, England; Harvard; Ohio State; Florida; Pittsburgh. Today our faculty members have similar degrees and transmit the great body of world learning to more thousands of students than even the 1926 editors dared guess. Let us hope we may also uphold the promise which the first Ibis editors made for their successors, in maintaining . . . ”A great institution of learning which inspires and fosters the spirit of tolerance, high ideals and good fellowship to the four corners of the earth.” JAY F. W. PEARSON President BOARD OF TRUSTEES: Front row: Oscar F. Dooly, trice chairman: Dr. Jay F. W. Pwnon. n-oflioo; Daniel J. Malwmey. chairman: Mrv Alvin R. Nninp: I r. John Oliver Ijtiorcr. Second row: | tin S. Knight. Dr. John W. Snyder. Charlev F. Kettering. ! r. Cilbcrt Crow nor. S'. McArthur, John C. Clark. Sam Blank, Karon de Hutch Meyer. Third row: William Arnold Hanger. Rogoc Hrututetter, Ceorge C. Wheeler. Jr.. Fleming U. Railey. Ceorge F.. Whitten. Robert I’cntland. |r.. Daniel H. Redfcam, Mac Orovitx. Board rnenibcrt not pictured: Harry Hood Bassett, Arthur Vimng Davit. Hugh I'. Fmerton, W. Alton |one». Mary Wellt Milam, Eleanor P. Montgomery, Frank Smathert. Jr., McCregor Smith, Arthur A. L'ngar, lone S. Wynne. 23 4 DR. JAY F. W. PEARSON. President of the University